Category Archives: Festivals

Kanye West will now headline FYF Fest on Saturday in Los Angeles. According to a press release Thursday night, “Frank Ocean has decided on his own terms to cancel his appearance.” No word on the reason for the late switch.

Morrissey is still scheduled to headline the Sunday FYF show.

Weekend passes are still available for the music festival which is at L.A. Memorial Sports Arena and Exposition Park. General-admission two-day festival passes for $175 are almost gone. Visit fyffest.com for more info.

When Lollapalooza first began, if you weren’t there, that was it — it was lost to time. Thankfully Red Bull TV is here to save the day.

Red Bull TV will have a livestream, running now through the weekend, at the Lollapalooza festival at Grant Park in Chicago.
Artists like Django Django, Chet Faker, The Weeknd, Alt-J, A$AP Rocky, Gary Clark Jr., Alabama Shakes, Father John Misty, Death From Above 1979 and many others will perform at the three-day annual festival. Ex-Beatles legend Paul McCartney is set for Sunday night.

Besides live acts, artist interviews and interactive segments will air over three channels.

These days, you don’t even need to leave your house to see a festival. Leave the spilled beer, insipid port-a-potties and bad views to the other guys.

Bonnaroo 2015 livestream, the annual festival at The Farm in Manchester, Tennessee, is now happening at Red Bull TV. Bonnaroo 2015 will stream from June 11-14 and will span three channels

Among the highlights: Billy Joel, Courtney Barnett, Royal Blood, Run the Jewels, D’Angelo and The Vanguard, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, My Morning Jacket, ODESZA, Jamie xx, Mac DeMarco and many many more.

The Bonnaroo 2015 festival is exclusively broadcasting on Red Bull TV which can be accessed at www.redbull.tv/bonnaroo, and via the Red Bull TV app on Android, iOS and Windows phone, through Apple TV, and Samsung TVs Red Bull channels, and as a free downloadable app on Amazon Fire TV, Kindle Fire, Nexus Player, Roku Players, Roku TV models, and Xbox 360. The Red Bull TV stream will also be carried on the festivals website, bonnaroo.com.

Amid a Change.org petition, North By Northeast festival on Friday announced Action Bronson’s performance in Toronto has been canceled.

According to the press release, “a significant” number of Toronto residents have objected to Action Bronson’s show at Yonge Dundas Square. In a story in Pitchfork, a Change.org petition has been signed by about 40,000 people who object to Action Bronson’s music. The petition claims his music “glorifies gang-raping and murdering children.”

The full press release is below:

We at Northby Northeast (NXNE) are very proud of our 20-plus-years relationship with the people of the City of Toronto. And for almost 10 years we’ve shared Yonge-Dundas Square with you to present free, all-ages shows open to the public. YDS is the city’s space and as such we are obliged to listen to how the city and community want it used. A significant number of Torontonians have indicated their desire to have Action Bronson not perform at the Square. As annual guests in this space we feel we must accede to the strong wishes of the community and honour their input.

As a result, we will not be presenting Action Bronson at Yonge-Dundas Square but, hopefully we will still be presenting Action Bronson as part of Northby. We remain fundamentally committed to presenting this artist on a Toronto stage. We are not moving the Action show because we believe in censoring him or any other artists. In fact, we find the limiting of artistic expression distasteful. When artistic expression is limited, freedom and the evolution of ideas is often the casualty.

Hopefully, Action Bronson will accept our invitation to play at another, ticketed venue in the city so the public can decide for themselves if his work has merit. We booked Bronson, in part, because of his latest excellent disc, Mr. Wonderful.

We hope that this series of events does not foster some type of artistic chill in Toronto and its public spaces. Yonge-Dundas Square must remain a dynamic place where many viewpoints are expressed not just culturally but also at political events and rallies staged there.

We are heartened by the community engagement that has been taking place around this YDS show. This debate continues an important conversation about violence against women and its depiction in art and culture that is long overdue. We salute all of those who fight this battle and we would encourage everyone who has signed the petition or been engaged by this conversation to commit themselves personally to continuing the fight against violence against women. We at Northby pledge to continue being part of this discussion with the intent to help act as agents of change.

Pickathon 2014 has just released single-day tickets for the festival, which, considering the fantastic lineup, should not be missed, even if you can only go for one day.
Pickathon is an independent music fest held in Happy Valley, Ore., (What better place to hold a music fest?), from Aug. 1-3.

Single-day tickets, at $95 each, are the perfect size for those who can’t commit to the whole weekend but who don’t want to miss out on Pickathon. Check out the schedule for Friday, Aug. 1, Saturday, Aug.2, and Sunday, Aug. 3, so you can make an informed decision on the best way to spend your hard-earned money.